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Published: 2018-04-12 14:19:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 1533; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 0
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Etruscan soldier from the Roman-Etruscan wars, i like to imagine him from the city of Veio, the last etruscan Stronghold of their confederation, the last to fall in roman hands.Pencils 4h and 2b
The letters above are etruscan, the translation in etruscan language to the title of this deviation, Rasna means etruscan, Venzile means lancer
They called themselves "Rasenna", the Romans called them Tuscii, Etruscii, and in italian we call them Etruschi.
His equipment consist in a Negau type crested helmet, a breastplate, and a shield that will later inspire the romans
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In italian history, they're pretty much obscured by their successors, the Romans, but actually they are the missing link between italian copper, bronze, and iron age.
Their language have no equivalent in any other in a measure sufficient to translate it, and their origins are still debated.
I tend to trace them back to the Villanovan culture, which had their basin in the Po valley
(here is a Villanovan warrior i've portrayed not so long ago) >
in the centuries to come they've undergone a cultural mix with the Rhaeti tribe from modern day Switzerland, by also the Greeks at their harbour town of Spina, at the mouth of the Po river, in which it is believed a minority of population was indeed greek, and because of their commerce with them, and this was sure the major cultural influence, the renown standard for the time called "the hellenistic Koìne".
I'm pretty much sure they also did undergone a cultural influence from the Phoenicians.
By all those influences, composing this cultural and ethnical melting pot, have born what we define as the Etruscan civilization.
Thanks for faving dude, btw ^^
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